Cast: Michel Piccoli

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Serge Reggiani · Jean Desailly · Michel Piccoli

Plot Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Francisco Rabal

Plot Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid,...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Michel Piccoli · Emmanuelle Béart · Jane Birkin · Marianne Denicourt

Plot A renowned painter's ten-year hiatus comes to an end after becoming inspired by a young artist, and in particular the young artist's lover (Beart), who becomes the model for his...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Jean Gabin · María Félix · Françoise Arnoul · Jean-Roger Caussimon

Plot Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the then-old-fashioned cancan is still...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Susan Sarandon · Hollis McLaren · Kate Reid

Plot Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Michel Piccoli · Georges Géret · Françoise Lugagne

Plot The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Françoise Dorléac · Danielle Darrieux · George Chakiris

Plot In the little town Rochefort lives Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange Garnier (Françoise Dorléac), two musical twins that teach music and dance to kids. One day, Etienne (George Chakiris) and...

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Jean-Claude Pascal · Anouk Aimée · Gaby Sylvia · Philippe Lemaire

Plot Through her answers to police inspector Corbin's questions, investigating Dr Danieli's suicide, Catherine Racan draws her self-portrait. The ambitious young journalist indeed tells how she got to Paris with Pierre,...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Michel Piccoli · Miou-Miou · Michel Duchaussoy · Dominique Blanc

Plot Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Denis Lavant · Michel Piccoli · Juliette Binoche · Julie Delpy

Plot In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious new disease named STBO is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Dominique Jacquet · Michel Piccoli · Cécile Reigher

Plot At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten...

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Michel Piccoli · Romy Schneider · Georges Wilson · Bernard Fresson

Plot Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a...

Direction Claude Sautet

Cast Michel Piccoli · Romy Schneider · Lea Massari · Gérard Lartigau

Plot The movie revolves around a car accident. The accident involves Pierre, a middle-aged man going through a mid-life crisis. He has problems with his son and wife, and his young...

Direction René Clément

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Charles Boyer · Leslie Caron · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Plot August 1944. The French and American armies are nearing the French capital. Hitler orders one of his generals to retain control of the city or else destroy it. After the...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Anouk Aimée · Richard Berry · Nino Castelnuovo · Danielle Darrieux

Plot In tribute to her late husband, the wife of the respected French director honors his life and artistic works by highlighting his vision in clips and interviews.

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Yves Montand · Ingrid Thulin · Geneviève Bujold · Jean Bouise

Plot For some soldiers, the war is never over... Legendary "New Wave" director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) helms this emotionally-charged suspense-drama set in France and on the streets of...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Leos Carax · Denis Lavant · Kateryna Yuspina · Nastya Golubeva Carax

Plot A self-portrait of the director and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author's filmography.